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Posted by washere
Nov 28, 2018 at 12:32 AM
Unlike a few big corps, most outliner-ware is a cottage industry if not overwhelmingly single devs. I’ve always said all outliner devs should be supported as a rule, regardless. Eduardo is one of the few, an elite, who created something new and not just a little app. So he deserves extra praise. Another in the same league is Andy of Hyperplan who is present here. There are not many like them. Most just copy genres. There are 2 models for securing an app’s future but that is not the topic here.
I hope Eduardo finds both the time and resources to keep updating and modernizing his app. To provide both, commercial success is needed. Look at big hits like Scrivener or even bigger Evernote. It’s a catch 22 problem, not easy, specially when doing something novel in a niche market. There are certain crucial aspects to be taken care of to cross the Rubicon into the Valhalla of big box-office. Hope they get the right feedback. In any case, we should wish them all the best of luck.
Posted by SmallDog
Nov 29, 2018 at 06:03 PM
The one thing I most want from CT is better, fuzzier autocomplete.
For one thing, it should default to substring search. As it currently stands, unless you remember the exact words a topic’s name begins with, you simply can’t get to it in the autocomplete dropdown. You have to use the topic search.
Most of the time when I insert a link it’s purely to tie bits of my text together semantically. For example, I might write:
“This reminds me of that experience I recently had in which [blah-blah-blah]”
Now let’s say at some future point I recall that experience, and think: “hey! I remember several times in the past month I pointed out how what I was then experiencing reminds me of that particular experience. It’d be nice to find those references.”
But how? Mostly likely you don’t remember the exact words you used in those references. Worse, you most likely didn’t use the exact same words each time you refer to it. So it looks like you’ll have to grep a word or two and look through the results. A very unpleasant prospect! This where CT’s autocomplete come in handy. It helps you standardize on a single phrase to use when referring to a given idea. Same meaning, same language. Finding all references to some idea is just a matter of finding all backlinks.
For anyone who like to put links to this kind use, linking is probably something you do very often. I can easily have 8-10 links in a single paragraph. But this workflow isn’t supported very well by the current behavior of CT’s autocompletion, simply because you can’t search *inside* a topic name. Sure, you can do a topic search, but it’d much nicer to be able to minimize the context-switch, not having to leave the editor at all.
I keep some of my notes in sublime_zk, which has just this ideal (from my pov) autocompletion behavior (inherited from sublime text itself). But I miss so many of CT’s rich text and scripting capabitlies.
Posted by Paul Korm
Nov 29, 2018 at 07:07 PM
Thank you for this, Dr Andus!
CT is a great product. Only someone doggedly determine to excel at their work would produce a product as robust as CT. It nothing else every happens, it’s enough from that perspective.
Dr Andus wrote:
All this talk of death and dying and doom and gloom and pessimism…
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>I nearly forgot this thread was about the good news of resurrection!
>Rejoice, people!
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>In fact no-one, not even the software has actually died, thank goodness.
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>CT is running perfectly well on my laptop. I’m not getting a single bug.
>Nothing. Zilch. It’s alive!
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>Moreover, for the vast majority of CT’s existence, Eduardo had provided
>exemplary customer service.
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>We are talking about a developer who quite often implemented customer
>requests and suggestions on the same day or within a couple of days. Try
>that with the likes of [substitute your favourite big tech corporation]!
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>Surely we can see some positives in the news of an extraordinary
>developer recovering from an accident and announcing that he’s back?
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Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 29, 2018 at 07:38 PM
Well said, washere. There are a few independents who contribute to conversations here (not least Pierre!), and it’s always a great pleasure to hear from people with enough passion for a really interesting idea to turn it into an actual product.
washere wrote:
Unlike a few big corps, most outliner-ware is a cottage industry if not
>overwhelmingly single devs. I’ve always said all outliner devs should be
>supported as a rule, regardless. Eduardo is one of the few, an elite,
>who created something new and not just a little app. So he deserves
>extra praise. Another in the same league is Andy of Hyperplan who is
>present here. There are not many like them. Most just copy genres. There
>are 2 models for securing an app’s future but that is not the topic
>here.
>
>I hope Eduardo finds both the time and resources to keep updating and
>modernizing his app. To provide both, commercial success is needed. Look
>at big hits like Scrivener or even bigger Evernote. It’s a catch 22
>problem, not easy, specially when doing something novel in a niche
>market. There are certain crucial aspects to be taken care of to cross
>the Rubicon into the Valhalla of big box-office. Hope they get the right
>feedback. In any case, we should wish them all the best of luck.
Posted by washere
Nov 30, 2018 at 12:59 AM
Yes, most devs are very approachable if contacted too. Also if it’s a major app, the key aspects are, how innovative is it and how useful are those features and itself overall.
MadaboutDana wrote:
Well said, washere. There are a few independents who contribute to
>conversations here (not least Pierre!), and it’s always a great pleasure
>to hear from people with enough passion for a really interesting idea to
>turn it into an actual product.
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